My election battle - Lovelovelove President (Elect) Obama
November 5, 2008
I wanted to be happy today. I tried my best to join in the global sensation of anxious hope. It started well and by 3pm Sydney time it was going so well.
Despite being surrounded by people who think yesterday’s 3 minute event at 3pm was the pinnacle of comtemporary culture and fascination.
I spent some of today banging my head on various materials to decide whether the steel filing cabinet or the gyprock wall or the glass door would relieve me of my pain. But nothing stops the bleeding from the wounds one suffers when surrounded by Australians who think it’s unpatriotic to show any interest in America.
They watch American movies, on big ole American style TV’s while eating McDonald’s, but when it comes to acknowledging that whoever’s President could change THE world OUR world, well, an Australian can’t be caught dead caring.
So for the sake of the atrocities that should never have occurred, for the tortured in Guantanamo Bay, for the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians, for the environmental catastrophes that have escalated with justice denied to them, for the soldiers that were sacrificed for a few men’s greed, and for all the other Americans and non-Americans who died needlessly at the hands of a brutal dictator:
Thank you Barack Obama.
A man who has made himself and his family instant targets, who is willing to sacrifice all for the sake of common good, a man who holds more power, arguably now, than any president in history, a man who could literally help save the world, for this gift of hope, even if it comes to nothing, as human nature so often does, to imagine that hope is possible:
Thank you Barack Obama.
Now it’s just the waiting game until “President” Bush can be indicted for war crimes against humanity and hanged by the neck until he is dead, like Saddam Hussein. Or is that hoping for too much?
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In my cynical moments, I feel despair for the world, but is that a sense of hope reawakening? Is it possible that some sanity has returned to the world?